CITIES: COMPLEX ADAPTIVE BIOSOCIAL SYSTEMS

cityCities are not only the drivers of the global environment and economy, but are home to over half the world's population. In many aspects cities are the ideal superorganism to study - a complex adaptive system with intricately interwoven social and ecological subsystems. Cities are also the engines of innovation and economic creativity with superlinear scaling of creative attributes vs. population size. Thus, understanding and sustaining cities is critical to several fields of science as well as to policy makers at multiple levels of governance.

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS


Title: Industrial structure and a tradeoff between productivity and resilience
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, K. Waters
Status: In Review


Title: Disappearing Economic Mobility in U.S. Micropolitan Areas
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, J.M. Applegate
Journal: In Review


Title: Stellar evolution as a metaphor for urban economic
development
Author(s): D. Painter, S.T. Shutters, E. Wentz
Journal: In Review


Title: Disappearing Economic Mobility in U.S. Micropolitan Areas
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, J.M. Applegate
Journal: In Review


Title: Characterizing the sectoral development of cities
Author(s): D. Rybski, P. Pradhan, S.T. Shutters, J.P. Kropp
Journal: In Review

2020
Title: Inferring Networks of Interdependent Labor Skills to Illuminate Urban Economic Structure
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, K. Waters
Journal: Entropy 22(10):e22101078

2020
Title: Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises
Author(s):J. Lobo, M. Alberti, M. Allen-Dumas, E. Arcaute, M. Barthelemy, L.A. Bjorquez Tapia, S. Brail, L.M.A. Bettencourt, A. Beukes, W-Q. Chen, R. Florida, M. Gonzalez, N. Grimm, M. Hamilton, C.P. Kempes, C. Kontokosta, C. Mellander, Z. Neal, S. Ortman, D. Pfeiffer, M. Price, A. Revi, C. Rozenblat, D. Rybski, M. Siemiatycki, S.T. Shutters, M.E. Smith, E. Stokes, D. Strumsky, G. West, D. White, J. Wu, V. Chiquio Yang, A. York, H. Youn
Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3526940

2019
Title: Multi-level approach to urban resilience: conceptual and operational model
Author(s): M. Rogov, C. Rozenblat, S.T. Shutters
Venue: American Association of Geographers 2019 conference, Washington, DC, USA

2019
Title: Graduate Education for a New Sustainable Urban Systems Science: Designing a New PhD Curriculum Integrating Sustainability Science and Urban Science
Author(s):J. Lobo, M. Alberti, M. Allen-Dumas, L.M.A. Bettencourt, A. Beukes, Z. Neal, D. Pfeiffer, S.T. Shutters, M.E. Smith, E. Stokes, D. Strumsky, J. Wu
Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3466322

2018
Title: Urban Science: Putting the "Smart" in Smart Cities
Author(s): S.T. Shutters
Journal: Urban Science 2(4):94

2018 Title: The relationship between density and scale in information networks: The case of urban occupational networks
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, J. Lobo, R. Muneepeerakul, D. Strumsky, C. Mellander, M. Brachert, T. Farinha-Fernandes, L.M.A Bettencourt
Journal: PLoS ONE 13(5):e0196915
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2017Title: A Flexible Data-Centric Approach for Modeling and Analyzing Hyper Connected Megacities
Author(s): K. S. Candan, S.T. Shutters, C. Fortunato
Journal: Small Wars Journal 13(7):14-Jul
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2016 Title: Anticipating Megacity Responses to Shocks: Using Urban Integration and Connectedness to Assess Resilience
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, W. Herche, E. King
Journal: Small Wars Journal 12(2):26-Feb
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2016 Title: Constrained pathways to a create urban economy
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, R. Muneepeerakul, J. Lobo
Journal: Urban Studies 53(16):3439-3454
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2016 Title: How hard is it for urban economies to become "green"?
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, R. Muneepeerakul, J. Lobo
Journal: Environment and Planning B 43(1):198-209
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2015 Title: The New Global Urban Realm: Complex, Connected, Diffuse, and Diverse Social-Ecological Systems
Author(s): M.R. McHale, S.T.A. Pickett, O. Barbosa, D.N. Bunn, M.L. Cadenasso, D.L. Childers, M. Gartin, G. Hess, D.M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, M.N. Peterson, A.K. Poole, L. Rivers III, S.T. Shutters,  W. Zhou
Journal: Sustainability 7(5):5211-5240
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2015 Title: Quantifying urban economic resilience through labour force interdependence
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, R. Muneepeerakul, J. Lobo
Journal: Palgrave Communications 1(201510):1-7
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2015 Title: Public Representation in Water Management – A Network Analysis of Organization and Public Perceptions in Phoenix, Arizona
Author(s): B.B. Cutts, T. Muñoz-Erickson, S.T. Shutters
Journal: Society & Natural Resources 28(12):1340-1357
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2014 Title: Living in a network of scaling cities and finite resources
Author(s): M. Qubbaj, S.T. Shutters, R. Muneepeerakul
Journal: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 77(2):390-407
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2013 Title: Urban Economies and Occupation Space: Can They Get There from Here?
Author(s): R. Muneepeerakul, J. Lobo, S.T. Shutters, A. Gomez-Lievano, M. Qubbaj
Journal: PLoS ONE 8(9):e73676
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2006 Title: Weekly cycling of environmental variables in Phoenix, Arizona
Author(s): S.T. Shutters, R.C. Balling Jr.
Journal: Atmospheric Environment 40(2):304-310
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